Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-06-03
MARvELo US GROWTH.
The Industrial and Commercial Progress
OF the Different Portions OF Our Coun


The Industrial and Commercial Progress
Of the Different Portions of Our Coun-
try.
In general way Americans under
stand that their country is making mar
velous progress in population and
wealth. But they will never quite real
ize the full force of the facts until the
census of 1890 is taken. 1t will then
be found that in no previous decade
has there been any such progress as
between 1880 and 1890. The tn. zee sec
tons of the country which will show
the most remark able developments are
the South, the West and Pacific coast.
AS to the Southern States, the change
there is not so much in the additions to
the population al in its material devel-
opment; in othe r words, the enchant-
ment of its wealth, present and pros
pective. In the olden times, cotton
| raising was the main source of income.
Ii now represents only one-third of the
money-producing industries of that
section. The beneficient change has
been brought about by manufacturing
enterprises and the consequent diversi-
fication of empIoyments. Instead of
employing them selves in raising cot
ton alone, and getting their tools, cloth
| ing and even their food from the
| North they now manufacture for them
| selves and raise their own corn and
pork. 1t is the products of coal and
| inl, an, inl, I'D
tons, and it is the working of these
two minerals which is changing the
whole face of Sc uthern society. What
may be termed the middle zone of the
South extending from Norfolk due
west to Northern Mississippi, with a
width of say fou r hundred miles, will
be found regio IN in which is some of
the finest coal and iron in the world.
The mines are being worked for all
they are worth, and hence there is a
prodigious developmentinS Southern in
dustres
But while the South, West and Pa
cifc coast are ex ceptionally prosperous,
the Middle and Eastern States can not
complain. The increase in our urban
population is very large. All the East
ern cities are growing, though probably
not in as great i ratio as the centers OF
population in the West. Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Baltil more, Philadelphia and
Boston are we'll pleased, for the past
year has seen more building and g
larger increase in population than il
any previous twelve months of theil
history. New York, too, is fast becom
ing real metropolis. 1t has added
$4,000 to its population in a twelve
month, and it's expenditures for new
edifices aggregate nearly $70,000,00t
against about $40, 900, 600 for the pre-
vious year. I1 the ancient world, i
was said that every road constructed
led to Rome; in modern America, every
railway, although brought into being
to serve local wants, vet somehow ter
inmates on n q York Bay. Arount
that magnificent harbor there are to
day some 2,250, 900 inhabitants, and be
fore another century passes away thu
+ American metropolis will leave thu
! 5000, 900 inhabitants of London far il
) the rear. Surveying the whole field
no American ca II help feeling proud a
the magnificent condition and the pros
porous prospects of the land of hi
birth. -DemoreSt Mon'h1y.